Before this video: How the hell do these people shoot like this?! *Wasting all my ammo on a single target* After this video: *Fires a single burst into an evading 109. Sends it ablaze.*

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

Awesome to hear Hyper, another success story! :-D

Cracking tutorial, the examples cover all situations and the slow motion re-runs are a great addition.

@RequiemsACTL

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chuffer :-) I like the slow motion too as it actually gives me enough time to explain what's going on! It's information overload if I try and get everything across in real time.

you must be the calmest most precise pilot during the dogfight :D my head goes full with adrenaline and I usually get only/mostly lucky... very good video, gonna try to work with the degrees more in the future

@RequiemsACTL

6 жыл бұрын

xXE4GLEyEXx I am a calm person in general, but it's easier to be calm in the sim because I know I can't die :-P There are times when my adrenalin does kick in a bit though... usually when I've been bounced or if I'm starting my own bounce on someone hoping they don't see me sneaking up on them! Lol

Nice, i see you on berloga from time to time, we have had some scraps! I have never thought about the sights and angle off like this before very informative, will try this tonight.

@RequiemsACTL

6 жыл бұрын

Hey Higaluto! I remember seeing your name from time to time as well! If you see me on Berloga it's usually been to get some footage for these videos or as a gunnery warm up before flying on a larger MP server :-)

Thanks for these gunsight videos, been a big eye opener and have had instant improved success!

@RequiemsACTL

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome to hear!

I always thought that leading a target was essentially an intuitive business but...this vid explains me why i hit (when i hit!) a target, and why i miss when i miss it! There's gonna be plenty of crack shots online from now on! Fantastic work and very enjoyable video! Thank you!!!

@RequiemsACTL

Жыл бұрын

It does become intuitive over time, but these will help get your eye in. After a while you won't think about it :-)

Very educating and informative video, pal.

Thx very much :D

@RequiemsACTL

6 жыл бұрын

HungrigerHugo89 My pleasure! Making these gunnery videos is fun :-)

I am educated once more! I gotta say, you DO make it look easy though. Never seems to work like that for me somehow!! ;-))

@RequiemsACTL

6 жыл бұрын

If you focus on remembering the Angle Off pictures first...then consciously think about the Angle Off in a fight I assure you the hits will come, and with enough practice the conscious thought starts to disappear too. Then you can just upgrade to a gyroscopic sight and take it easy!

Very helpful, thanks!!!

@RequiemsACTL

6 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed mtnmist!

Good video. As a heads-up, you put the 4 tick mark example up at a time that it overlaid the wingspan examples a few seconds before the example was introduced by the voice over. The timestamp for the problem is 0:53 in the video.

@RequiemsACTL

6 жыл бұрын

Daniel O'Dette thanks for that. There's always some mistake that gets through...at least it's not a complete showstopper this time. I'm only human! :-)

Thank you, very helpfull!

This is amazing!

You should do a video on the Italian gunsight.

Another masterpiece! :)

@RequiemsACTL

6 жыл бұрын

Cheers Spartan :)

Another great video, congrats Requiem. It will helpful a video how to set the convergence distance and joystick. From your video it seems you have a very good setting of joystick, I'm not able to have so precise movements in the aircraft.

@existentialcrisis9857

5 жыл бұрын

Alessandro Lo Casale be gentle and have minute movements of the joystick. Planes do jump around though, not much can be done about that.

+RequiemBoS *The Reflector Visier PBP-1 reminds me of mil-dot riflescopes,* which divide the crosshairs into 1-mil intervals at the center. Obviously putting 12.7x109mm HEI from dual _Pulemjot Berezina Sinkhronn'yj_ through an evasive bogey is a much faster but otherwise less demanding exercise than splitting an enemy sentry's collarbone at 400m with a single 7.62x54R long-range frangible out of a _Snajper'skaja Vintovka 1891/1936._

You are amazing.

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

Just doing what I can to help people be more accurate as it can be a huge source of frustration!

so dang helpful

@RequiemsACTL

4 жыл бұрын

Appreciate it Andy, I hope you're seeing good results with your gunnery :-)

hey great video! Seeing the shots at the end with your explanation really helps understand faster the angles. This video made me realise that my sight is not adjusted. I fly the Yak 1b series 69 and the 2 outer rings are ¨outside¨ the sight glass. I never realised they existed until now. How can I adjust it so I can see them?

@RequiemsACTL

3 жыл бұрын

You'll need to move forward in your seat and re-save the default view using F10 if you want to see both rings

Nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey Requiem, the angle off is a cone around the tail or is it just in the plane of the wings?

Great video, I can finally reduce my duel kill practice time to under 5 min. Quick question though, in Yak-1 I cant quite see the outer ring, is there a way to quick estimate the outer ring? thanks!

@domintetarus7840

3 жыл бұрын

Same problem; you can move pilot head up with menu controls or trackir

Are you adjusting the head of the pilot foward and then adding a little amount of zoom to see the rings? I'm having a hard time tring to see the outer ring in the sights.

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

That's right Gabriel. I used the Yak-1b so I could illustrate the principle of using the outer rings. Unfortunately with the head positions in some of the other Russian airplanes you won't be able to see the outer ring properly, so for the most part if you learn how to only use the inner ring that's all you need.

Not sure if you still comment on video's from so long ago mate, but watching you control your fire in slow motion I notice the tracking direction suggests you must be using rudders quite a bit at times? I ask because a) my marksmanship is awful and I'm trying to improve and b) I wonder if that's partly because I try and stay balanced and not yaw/skid but that means it's harder to track the target unless my wings are parallel to his (hers)..

@RequiemsACTL

4 жыл бұрын

I thought I already replied to this Lofty a few days ago but I see it's not here...I'll try again. The time my video has been up isn't really relevant to me to reply to it, because I create these using actual real life documentation and not on what works "in a game" so these videos will work in any other sim provided it's modeled correctly. It's hard to tell exactly every time, but I may have been uncoordinated at different times and the rudder was used to bring me back into being coordinated again occasionally. You're thinking is right though...you can't track the target unless your wings are parallel...because otherwise you're not in the same plane of motion which means your firing solution is only valid for a moment (ie - a snapshot). If you're in the same plane of motion then your firing solution lasts much longer (tracking shot). The rudders can be used however you like, but it is best to try and stay coordinated if you can. There are times when I will slip or skid to create a shot opportunity, but doing that comes with practice as you have a good general idea of where your bullets are going to end up by doing so. These gunnery videos (and the accompanying PDF document) are there to give you that general sense of how to shoot initially and help you improve faster. With practice you will no longer need to visualise the Angle Off rings and you will simply point and shoot without thinking too hard.

@DeltaMikeUK

4 жыл бұрын

@@RequiemsACTL Thanks for such a detailed reply. Much appreciated. Incredible resource you've created online.

@domintetarus7840

3 жыл бұрын

@@RequiemsACTL how does gun convergence influence the deflection shot? if it is too short / too long the rings will have to move?

And what aiming distance do you use in the video? Will it be much diffenence with PBP-1 on 200 or 400m set with guns in the game? Thank you for the video! Very informative.

@RequiemsACTL

3 жыл бұрын

Russian airplane I use a convergence of around 300m. You probably won't notice a huge difference between them unless you use wing mounted cannons on the I16 or something

@weekwar

3 жыл бұрын

@@RequiemsACTL Hm. Isn't it vertical ballistics distance?

Is this useful for War Thunder sim battles as well? Great tutorial :)

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

Pretty much anything I make is applicable to any flight simulator/game. Provided they model the same kind of gunsight this tutorial would apply in WT as well.

Great video. Very informative. Too bad I can't play in close-up, slo mo. Might actually hit something. Lol.

When is it usually zero degree angle off?

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

If you download the pdf linked in the video description you will see pictures of the different Angle Off situations.

@18eNick

5 жыл бұрын

Will do now

Can you do a video on the p40 gunsite?

@RequiemsACTL

6 жыл бұрын

I plan to Nick, but you can get a little headstart for yourself as well. If you download my gunnery guide it has the sight rings for the US N-3A gunsight used in the P-40 and P-39.

@TheDNick

6 жыл бұрын

The Air Combat Tutorial Library Is that the link in the description? Because I didn't see it there.

@RequiemsACTL

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's in the description when you click "show more" but here it is:www.dropbox.com/s/s4kl8jgkouw8wqb/Angle%20Off%20Charts.pdf?dl=0

Great video! But my English leaves much to be desired (some moments are not clear. Could you write something about what you were talking about so that I could figure it out with the help of a translator? There is no such interesting information in Russian, thanks in advance)

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

I'm hoping to have some translations done for my videos. There was someone on the Russian side of things who asked about making some.

@user-kn1qo4ks1l

5 жыл бұрын

You have perfectly explained the vertical lead, I understood everything. It is not clear how to take preemption if the enemy has turned into a turn, and we are to the left or to the right behind him? In the old Soviet manuals it is said that one must take preemption in the figures. But how much and at what speed it is not clear! It would be great if you made this video)

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

I based the rings off the equivalent of what the Soviets used for the PBP-1 historically in the video when the bandit is at 45° angle off depending on his airspeed (400 or 600 km/hr) as seen here kzread.info/dash/bejne/aq192bWYaLG2Zps.html The inner ring is 45° Angle Off at 400km/hr, the outer ring is 45° Angle Off at 600km/hr. I then used some math to extrapolate the other rings to approximately equal the other measurements on the sight. The PDF document in the videos description is there to download off my Dropbox and it has examples of Angle Off for a good variety of airplanes.

@user-kn1qo4ks1l

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you

This is great, good video. But isnt wingoff damage a bit too often in this game? It seems almost every time the wing is shot off.

@RequiemsACTL

6 жыл бұрын

Dennis Ejstrup thanks. I think the wing damage aspect is fine from both sides of the coin, especially when the cannon rounds start hitting home. I get my own wings shot off pretty equally while flying Allied or Axis. It's a big surface area to shoot at it in a turn, then you're applying G force to a damaged area so I'd almost expect it to happen

@dge4560

6 жыл бұрын

The Air Combat Tutorial Library but most ww2 fighters and especially the fw190 was made tough with not only a main wingspar to take the blunt, but many ribs to spread the load in case of damage. I have not made any research of it, but i do aircraft archeology with ww2 time period and I have not yet found an aircraft with only one wing within the main crashsite.

@Lemard77

6 жыл бұрын

There are some WW2 gun camera footage showing wings off even in case of medium sized two engine planes by .50 cal machine guns, there are also cases of fuel tanks or ammunition storages blowing off, like in this video for example kzread.info/dash/bejne/p594ydCpYM-aipM.html Maybe it wasn't as common as in the sim, but it happened. I think there should be some more shootdowns by aerodynamic effect of having a wing turned into swiss cheese than the currently more common structural failure though. Or maybe this is a consequence of us being 1G PC chair pilots by which we can achieve more accuracy than the real pilots (and thus much devastating effects on the targets if all parameters are correctly modeled).

I find that deflection comes more naturally than using the sight rings and degrees.

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

It does for me too but these rings are there for the new pilot who has trouble hitting the target. These are about providing a basic framework to use so as you get more experience and practice your gunnery will improve faster. Eventually you won't need to think consciously about it and the rings won't be necessary anymore.

1:38 What's the math on that? I'm interested!

@RequiemsACTL

3 жыл бұрын

I'll post the math when I get open up my laptop tomorrow

@aspielm759

3 жыл бұрын

The Air Combat Tutorial Library Thank you! I appreciate the effort!

@RequiemsACTL

3 жыл бұрын

@@aspielm759 It's a lot for me to type and a comment isn't really a good format for it....the math for it can be found here though memory.loc.gov/service/gdc/scd0001/2010/2010_01/20100404008fi/20100404008fi.pdf

I don't understand where you're getting "angle off"... You seem to be aligning your nose at a "best guess" angle, and deciding based on where you've guessed his angle off, which seems to contradict the precision of the action vs just using experience to know where the bullet's go. Care to explain?

@RequiemsACTL

6 жыл бұрын

I don't know if you've seen the first or second videos, but this video assumes you have as the concept is explained already. The Angle Off is how you see the bandit, and based on its Angle Off and estimated airspeed you will place it at a certain radii which I approximate by creating the rings. They are simply a basic guideline to get your "eye in" so to speak and with experience you won't need to consciously think about them anymore.

@GridironGameSim

6 жыл бұрын

Ah, I didn't realize that. Guess Ill check out the other two first and come back to this one. Thanks

w0w

What plane is it?

@RequiemsACTL

4 жыл бұрын

Probably a variety of airplanes, Yaks, Laggs... it doesn't really matter honestly as the gunsight is the same across the Russian airplanes so you can apply this shooting to the Pe-2 and Il-2 (except the 1943 version) as well.

@timswag7506

4 жыл бұрын

@@RequiemsACTL Thanks you for your answer and videos. I just saw an interesting cockpit and have decided to ask.

Requeim check subtitles plz

@RequiemsACTL

4 жыл бұрын

Russian subtitles added. Thank you very much!

I'm still terrible at deflection shooting... Should I be studying angle off charts or just practicing learning to guesstimate on the fly? Pun intended.

@RequiemsACTL

Жыл бұрын

Focus on the charts first and learn to recognise the angle off in flight. When you're flying/fighting in single player feel free to slow down time acceleration too by 1/2. That will help you out as well.

@MistaMeowmers

Жыл бұрын

@@RequiemsACTL Wonder if TacView can display angle off data... Then I could predict it and look back in the past, lol. I'll see if I can study the charts. Maybe make some virtual flash cards.